Doscussing the Millions More Movement in the Washington Post, David Nicholson says:

It's going to take a lot more than a 10-point platform, and speeches on the Mall, to change the realities that lead to the perception that maybe black people aren't quite good enough.

The boy is very skilled with weasel words.

The question is, what is the domain in which these realities exist? My first impulse is to run down a list of conditions common to those Black folks he's talking about that physically limit one's development. But the reality that leads to the perception is always the real rules by which one judges things. That reality is between David's ears...otherwise he'd be making structural observations rather than value judgements.

In 1963, when King stepped up to the lectern, he might have been -- as Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom suggest in "America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible" -- the beneficiary of racial attitudes that had been changing since the 1940s. [emphasis added]

This single statement should discredit the Thernstroms' book and every writer that leans on it for justification. Let's keep it historical: he, and we, benefitted from the television broadcast of the brutality the American Solid South inflicted on Black people. Like the Vietnam War, the brutality was too much for the white collective self-image to bear.

Today, however, I suspect, racial attitudes are changing again. White Americans feel (more or less correctly) that the battles have been won and that blacks enjoy the same opportunities they do.

I would like David to name the battles he thinks have been won.

And while they may not voice their concerns publicly, they wonder (and who can blame them?) why so many black men are in prison or on parole, why so many black children are born out of wedlock, and why even middle-class black kids don't do as well on standardized tests as whites.

You don't really want the answer to those questions because they've been given. It's just you've heard counter information from people you trust more than you trust Black folks. And it wouldn't really benefit you to know the truth.